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    FOR SALE REPOST: FS Like-New Pedersoli Rocky Mountain Hawken .50 Cal.

    Howdy -- since getting heavily into my rifled muskets I'm going to part with my Pedersoli RMH. This was a Cabela's purchase about 3 years ago and was a special run for them in .50 Cal. I've put, at most, 250 carefully loaded balls and Lee REAL projectiles through it, and added a Pedersoli rear...
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    FOR SALE FS: Like New Pedersoli Rocky Mountain Hawken .50 w/ beautiful Maple

    Thanks very much and my apologies. I'll get some photos done and post them later on, and hopefully in compliance with the guidelines. Thanks for letting me know.
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    FOR SALE FS: Like New Pedersoli Rocky Mountain Hawken .50 w/ beautiful Maple

    Howdy -- since getting heavily into my rifled muskets I'm going to part with my Pedersoli RMH. This was a Cabela's purchase about 3 years ago and was a special run for them in .50 Cal. I've put, at most, 250 carefully loaded balls and Lee REAL projectiles through it, and added a Pedersoli rear...
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    New from mid Mo.

    Welcome from Columbia MO. I caught the fire several years ago with cap and ball Colt replicas, then started collecting 2nd Gen Colts, then started accumulating various Pedersoli rifles and Civil War rifled muskets. Love all of it. All of my shooting has been on the range thus far.
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    Trying out Lee real 360gr cast lead bullets for the first time

    This thread prompted me to enjoy a long range outing on Saturday morning with my Rocky Mountain Hawken (Pedersoli). I fired about 50 of my 250-grain .50 REAL bullets, SPG lubed, and had a grand old time. At 75 yds. 8 of my first 10 rounds of the day were ten-ring and just at 2".
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    Trying out Lee real 360gr cast lead bullets for the first time

    I buy my SPG from Midway. But for me it's only a 10 minute drive there to pick it up . . . In any case, one block about the size of a bar of soap will last a LONG time.
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    Trying out Lee real 360gr cast lead bullets for the first time

    I shoot the 250 REAL bullets out of my two Pedersoli Hawkens (Traditional and Rocky Mountain). I push them with 70-80 gns. of Triple Seven 2f and #11 magnum caps. I think the REALs need a bit more powder to show their best (compared with PRBs). A bit like Minies, I think the higher powder...
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    Trying out Lee real 360gr cast lead bullets for the first time

    I can guarantee that you won't have a problem with SPG staying on the bullets. I warm a small chunk of it in a double boiler arrangement on the range, and dip the REAL bullets (using tongs) up to the top ring. Then set them aside on foil or wax paper and let them cure overnight. I also like...
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    Trying out Lee real 360gr cast lead bullets for the first time

    These look excellent. I've been casting the 250 grainers for about 3 years now and yours look great. I dip-lube mine in SPG. That seems to work for me and is much less messy than greasy wet lubes.
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    Smithville, Missouri

    Very nice. Not sure your age, but I just turned 60 this summer and was born/raised here (Columbia). Maybe just rose-colored glasses, but as a kid I remember our little town (then) being more like Mayberry than the small city I've now come to call, derisively, "Little Beverly Hills." You could...
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    Smithville, Missouri

    And welcome from Columbia MO . . .
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    1861 Springfield not igniting powder

    I have to do that very thing for the first several shots out of my Zouave, each outing, to "wake it up" (clear the fire channel). Why the Enfield doesn't usually need this, I don't know.
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    1861 Springfield not igniting powder

    I've never had any significant ignition issues with my Pedersoli 3-band P53 Enfield, (using either CCI or Scheutzen 4-wing caps) but my new (and beautiful!!) Pedersoli Zouave is a different story -- LOTS of ignition problems with that one, regardless of cap brand. Scheutzen caps fit much...
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    Sargent York - 1941

    Sorry -- but which side of our political ledger REALLY hates Democracy? Hollywood and its fiction -- or the Lying Autocrat and his brainless followers who want to tear away any meaningful democratic voting process in this country? Be careful who you accuse of "hating democracy" without looking...
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    How would you size minies for these bores?

    My new Pedersoli Zouave measures out at about .576, tighter than my 3-band Enfield of the same brand which measures at about .578 (measured using pin gauges). In both, I've had the best luck sizing the Lyman Blue-Grey Minie to exactly .575". I accomplish this using the Pedersoli sizing tool...
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